Rail-fastener.



E. H. CASE 6; T. R. B'ARRALL. RAIL PASTE-NEE: uruoumn Hum mm: 30, 1910.

Patented Nov.'1,1910.

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R. BARRALL, OF NANTICOKE, PENNSYLVANIA.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented NOV. 1, 1910.

Application filed June 30, 1910. Serial No 569,729.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, EMANUEL.H. CASE and THOMAS H. BARRALL, citizens of the United States, residing at N anticoke, in the county of Luzerne, State of Pennsylvania,

new and useful RaiLFastener, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to means for fastening rails to ties and its object is to provide simple means utilizing spikes in conmotion with a rail supporting plate, said spikes and plate being adapted to interlock in a novel manner so that the spikes will be prevented from lifting out of engagement with the rail engaged thereby and spreading thus prevented.

A further object is to provide a fastener which is simple inconstruction and which 9 can be readily applied.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists of certain novel details of construction and combination of parts hereinafter more fully described and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings the preferred form of the invention has been shown. y

In said drawings :Figure 1 is a plan view of the rail supporting plate constituting a part of the present invention, the position of a rail thereon prior to the interlocking of the parts of the fastener being shown by dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a plan view of a rail and its fastener, the plate being shown shifted to locking position and secured to a tie. 3 is a side elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 2, a portion of the plate being broken away to show the spiketherein. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of one of the spikes used in connection with the fasteners.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference 1 designates a metal plate adapted to be interposed between a tie 2 and a rail 3, this plate having an upstanding rib or flange adapted to be fitted against'one of the base flanges of a rail.

Anopening is formed within the plate adjacent one side and intersects the flange 4, that portion of the opening adjacent the flanged'end of the plate being reduced in width as clearly indicated at 6. Another openin 7 is formed in the other end portion 0 the plate and also has one end portion reduced, as shown at 8, this reduced portion being extended in the direction of the flange 4. A. preferably rectangular opening 9 is formed in the plate at one side of the reduced portion of the opening 7, all of the said openings being so arranged that when a rail isplaced on the plate 1 and is in register with the inner end of the opening 5, said rail will lie flush with one edge of and will entirely conceal the opening 9 and will register with the opening 7 at the point where the reduced portion 8 begins.

The plate which has been described is adapted to be used in connection with an ordinary spike 10 and with two spikes 11 of special construction. Each of these spikes has the usual head 12 but theupper portionof the shank of the spike is enlarged laterally as shown at 13 and provided with a recess l4 sufficiently large to receive one wall of the reduced portion of either opening 5 and 7. The rail is placed at the proper point upon the tie and with the plate 1 thereunder, said plate being positioned relative to the rail in the manner illustrated in Fig. 1. The spikes 11 are then inserted into the large end portions of the openings 5 and 7 and driven into the tie until the recesses 4 are brought into alincment with the inset walls of the reduced portions of the openings. The plate 1 is then driven transversely of the rail so as to bring said inset portions into the recesses 4, thus securely locking the spikes to the plate, as shown in Fig. 3. At the same time, the opening 9 is shifted from under the rail 3 and as soon as the spikes 11 have become seated within the reduced portions-of the openings 5 and 7 and in engagement with one wall of the reduced portion of each opening, an ordinary spike may be driven into the tie 2 through the opening 9, the head of said spike engaging one of the base flanges of the rail as shown in Fig] 2. It will thus be seen that the two spikes 12 cannot be pulled out of the tie unlessthe foregoing operation is reversed in every detail. The spikes will be maintained at all times in engagement with the rail and the plate 1 will tend to hold the spikes secure] within the tie and prevent them from iieing withdrawn therefrom. When the plate is shifted in the manner which has been described, the flange 4 will be brought a ainst one of the'base flanges of the rail andd old said rail against spreading laterally.

It will be seen that the entire structure is parts without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of theinvention as defined in the appendedclaim.

What is claimed is A rail fastener including a rail supporting plate having spaced openings therein,-

each of which has a reduced end portion, said openin s bemgspaced apart to receive a rail thereetween, a flange upon the plate waste and intersected by one of the openings, rail flange against a rail and to position a Wall of each reduced portion of the openings Within a recess, there being an opening 1n the plate and movable to one side of the rail when the plateuris shifted, and a fastener insertible throu h said opening to hold the plate against s ifting movement.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own, we have hereto afiixed our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

EMANUEL H. CASE. THOMAS R. BARRALL. WVitnesses: I

OLIVER A. PARFITT, D. S. PENsYL. 

